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Atma Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 98 |
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: Does evil exist? |
The German university professor challenged his students with this question: Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied "Yes, he did!" "God created everything?" the professor asked. "Yes sir," the student replied. The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil." The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?" "Of course," replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor does cold exist?" The professor replied "Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat. The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?" The professor responded, "Of course it does," The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study,but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wave lengths of each color. ou cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world f darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil." To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir,or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light." The professor sat down. The young man's name - Albert Einstein.
Tete Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 169 |
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: Fallacies and Critical Thinking |
Howiemac, Since you mentioned the fallacy Slippery Slope I thought it would be good to post a link to the all time classic LOVE IS A FALLACY by Max Shulman. I would especially like the man that thinks women talk too much (full of hot air ) to read it...you know who you are DEAR ONE! LOVE IS A FALLACY
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Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute --- I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And - think of it! - I was only eighteen. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Burch, my roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender oneself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it - this to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey.
For the complete essay click on the link below and enjoy. http://users3.ev1.net/~rooftopyawp/loveisafallacy.html or this link... http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/gburton/love%20is%20a%20fallacy.htm ATMA, thanks for starting the thread. Regards, Tete
gyaniwasi Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 167 |
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
. http://users3.ev1.net/~rooftopyawp/loveisafallacy.html Hilarious Tete! Re the "DEAR ONE" (whoever): I hope it's not a Hasty Generalization _________________ "Those were the days my friend ...."
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